They only invited Jack and Sarah as an afterthought .
他们邀请杰克和萨拉不过是事后的主意。
1.事后的想法
2.计划外的加添物
1.something that you think of and say after you have finished speaking
2.something that happens or is done later than something else
1.He wrote me a cold letter; even the inquiry about my health looked as if it had been added on as an afterthought.
他给我写了一封非常冷淡的信，连信上问候我的话看来都好像是后来加上去的。
2.You could see that the last part of the report had just been grafted on as an afterthought.
你可以看出，这份报告的最后部分像是事后想起加上去的。
3.Almost as an afterthought, he carved a staff of Dreadwood and summoned into it a captive spirit from the Outer Hells.
后来他用恐惧之木雕刻了一根法杖，并在其中注入了一个他从异界之狱俘获的灵魂。
4.I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.
我第一眼看到爱斯基摩人，那么我猜每次再看到也会第一时间想起它，至于印第安人永远只能是事后烟。
5.Mary was a bit of an afterthought her brothers and sisters are all much older than her.
玛丽算是後添的--她哥哥姐姐都比她大得多。
6.Service management and monitoring should be considered at Design-Time, not as an afterthought associated solely with IT operations.
服务管理和监视应该是在设计时考虑的问题，不应该是只与IT操作相关联的后期问题。
7.Software is often an afterthought from the consumer's end, but when you're at the front lines this topic is very important.
软件通常是根据用户的需要而产生的，但如果你工作在（网页设计）第一线，这个话题就对你很重要了。
8.At worst, Rickenbacher said rushing to respond with a gift could end up looking like an afterthought.
Rickenbacher说，最糟糕的情况是，匆忙还礼会看起来就像你是后来才想到的。
9.Revision is not just an afterthought that gets only as much time as you have at the end of an assignment.
作品的修改不仅仅是在初稿完成后留出尽可能多的时间来进行事后诸葛亮的事。
10.We all design our HTML pages to look good on the screen, but printing those Web pages is usually an afterthought.
我们设计HTML页面都是为了使它们在屏幕上看起来很好，但打印这些Web页面却往往是事后才想到的事。